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Orange County Indexed

David Yarbrough to James Thompson

9 May 1815 · ODB 16/17

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
9 May 1815
From
David Yarbrough
To
James Thompson
Land
1 acre, in Hillsborough
Neighbors
William Norwood; James Lockhart; Young; Turner; John Taylor Jr; James Child
Citation
ODB 16/17
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
A page can hold several deeds, and a long deed can run onto the next page.
Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40008, “Record of Deeds, 1815-1818, Vols. 15, 16” (State Archives film).

Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.

Title and grant references

  • Proved at the February 1817 court (minutes OCPQS 9/299; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 9/286)

From the bracketed notes in Mark Chilton’s deed-book posts. OCPQS is the minutes of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions; RegLn is a line of the colonial Register of Orange.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 16 (look for ODB 16/17). Our record above is drawn from it.

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